By Dr. Mir Baiz Khan, Toronto, Canada 02 Nov 2011 / Chitral News.
Today is the birthday of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III, one of the architects of Pakistan. He was born in Karachi on November 2, 1877. Post independent generations of Pakistanis either have no knowledge or very little knowledge of his role in the Muslim awakening and the creation of Pakistan. K.K. Aziz, a well known historian has edited the Aga Khan’s speeches in two large volumes with a 198 pages introduction of his own. Professor Aziz in his preface to the volume captures incisively the lack of acknowledgement of the late Aga Khan’s achievements. He says:
“It is a sad reflection on modern Muslim historiography that the professional chronicler as much as the general educated reader needs a reminder about the contribution of such a man to his own modern history. Even in Pakistan, in whose nationalist movement he played a leading role, his achievements have received little acknowledgement: a cursory and fragmentary mention in history books, the naming of one or two roads after him (old roads which people continue to call by their old names), and the issuing of a postage stamp bearing his picture.”
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